Create and use your own template in Office for Mac

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Templates are files that help you design interesting, compelling, and professional-looking documents, presentations, and workbooks. A template is simply a starting point. You create it once and it can be used over and over again. The formatting is already complete; you add what you want to the template and then save it as a document, presentation, or workbook.

To create a template, you can start with a document, presentation, or workbook that you already created, one you downloaded, or a brand new one that you decide to customize in any number of ways.

Unless you select a different location, the template is saved in /Users/username/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content/Templates.

To change where Word automatically saves your templates, on the Word menu, click Preferences, and then under Personal Settings, click File Locations. Under File Locations, select User templates from the list, and then click Modify. Type the new folder and path you want to use, and Word will save any new templates in that folder.

Unless you select a different location, the template is saved in /Users/username/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content/Templates.

To change where Word automatically saves your templates, on the Word menu, click Preferences, and then under Personal Settings, click File Locations. Under File Locations, select User templates from the list, and then click Modify. Type the new folder and path you want to use, and Word will save any new templates in that folder.

PowerPoint

Open a blank presentation, and then on the View tab, click Slide Master.

The slide master is the largest slide image at the top of the slide thumbnail list. Associated layouts are positioned beneath it.

To make changes to the slide master or layouts, on the Slide Master tab, do any of these:

To add a colorful theme with special fonts, and effects, click Themes, and pick a theme.

To change the background, click Background Styles, and pick a background.

To add a placeholder for text, picture, chart, and other objects, in the thumbnail pane, click the slide layout that you want to hold the placeholder. From Insert Placeholder, pick the type of placeholder you want to add, and drag to draw the placeholder size.